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ACLU Has Perverted Its Mission

Updated May 31, 2000 12:23 a.m. ET

A May 10 Letter to the Editor from Ellison Burton takes exception to your criticism of the ACLU's victory against Ohio's state motto, "With God, all things are possible" ("In Mr. X We Trust ," Asides, April 28), saying, "What you reveal by this upside-down logic is your fear of our well-settled process for judicial interpretation of the Constitution and an authoritarian preference for silencing democratic advocacy by intimidation."